Staff Data Scientist - Marketing

ABOUT THE TEAM 

Instacart’s marketing data science team serves as thought partners and problem solvers for the Growth and Marketing orgs, supporting our broader mission to give everyone access to the food they love. We are responsible for understanding the end to end scope of growth marketing, including how marketing shapes and impacts customer behavior both today and in the long run, the efficiency and performance of any marketing technology we utilize, and what the highest ROI investments are in both marketing and marketing technology. We synthesize our insights and knowledge into actionable tactics, optimizations, and strategy within marketing.

ABOUT THE JOB

• Own analytical frameworks that guide marketing strategy and execution
• Design rigorous experiments and causal inference models to draw detailed and actionable conclusions
• Enable confident and objective decision making at both strategic and tactical levels
• Use expertise in causal inference, machine learning, economics, and experimentation to shape the future of Instacart
• Apply marketing and marketing technology domain knowledge to identify high-leverage opportunities and shape the team’s roadmap
• Provide mentorship to junior colleagues

ABOUT YOU

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years experience working in data-driven analytics/predictive analytics/statistical modeling/data mining (including relevant academic experience)
• Ability to run rigorous experiments or causal inference studies to come up with scientifically sound recommendations
• Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks
• Ability to code in Python or R and write complex, efficient SQL queries to extract data 
• Good understanding of how to grow and shape data tools and datasets to improve data-driven decision making
• Ability to thrive in a fast-changing and high-visibility team environment, working autonomously on a strong team to find opportunity and deliver business impact
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Excited about building a world-class marketing data science organization

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD or MS in computer science, machine learning, statistics, physics, mathematics, economics, or other relevant STEM fields
• 2+ years domain experience in marketing or transferable domain, especially at fast-growing B2C companies

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